Re: strange umlaut problem in cvs

[Philliph Mau]

gnu-cvs@regnis.de schrieb:
> Hi Philip,
>
> CVS does not define an encoding to use for file names or commit 
> messages, hence you never should use non-7-bit-ASCII characters in file 
> names or commit messages.
>
> It might work accidently, when you always work on the same platform, but 
> it fails if you are using a different platform.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Thomas Singer
>
>
> Philliph Mau schrieb:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I get the following message by checking out a cvs project:
> > "cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file .new.dirk geht to dirk geht
> > an franz vorber.jpg: Invalid argument"
> >
> > On the website
> > http://hea-www.harvard.edu/MST/simul/software/docs/pkgs/cvs/html/cvs_21.html 
> >
> > is written, that it is not much known about this error.. I hope you 
> > can help me though!?
> >
> > Well, here are my settings:
> > Server: Win2000 + SP3 with CVSNT, with ISO8859-1 charset.
> > Client where I want to check out the project:
> > SuSE Linux 9.3 with CVS and UTF8.
> > (Linux nbs1 2.6.11.4-21.8-default #1 Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 i686
> > i686 i386 GNU/Linux)
> > I think, the problem is not cvsnt specific. It sohould also be wrong 
> > in cvs for unix.
> >
> > When I check out the project from the Server, it displays the upper
> > error message when cvs starts downloading the file with a umlaut:
> > "dirk geht to dirk geht an franz vorüber.jpg"
> > For this file, CVS generates the file "*.new.dirk geht" what is not
> > correct! After that, cvs stops downloading the files from the server.
> >
> > When I change the charset in fstab for this partition to iso8859-1, all
> > umlauts were not displayed correctly ("ä" gets "?"...), but the checkout
> > succeeds. But I want a whole checkout with correct umlauts from Win2k to
> > my Linux machines.
> >
> >
> > I hope you cann help me? Maybe this is a bug in cvs?
> > Maybe you can suggest an solution for my case?
> >
> > -Phil
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Okay.. Thank you very much for telling me...
I searched for a long time for this response :)

thanks.

Phil